Performance Frontiers

Community Building within Organisations

PERMA in PLACE  What constitutes a flourishing human life? What are the practices that promote our wellbeing?  These are the questions posed by Positive Psychology, an increasingly influential area of psychology research and policy. Stemming from the works of Martin...
Marcus de Courtenay
Culture, Insights

Why Reflection, Recognition, and Celebration Energise a Workplace

It’s estimated that the average person spends a third of their lives (90,000 hrs) at work. If you subtract the time spent sleeping, this amounts to a significant portion of our ‘awake’ time. For most people, work is their dominant...
Dr. Marianne de Pierres
Culture, Insights, Leadership

The Case for Conscious Organisations: The Time is Now

The world has reached a crisis point. We are confronted with study after study describing the looming catastrophe of our inaction on climate change. Resignations continue to hit all major industries as people search for ways to spend their lives meaningfully,...
Marcus de Courtenay
Conscious leadership, Consciousness, Culture, Insights, Leadership, Leadership, Purpose, Storytelling, Transformation

Feedback and Familiarity – how to see our colleagues with fresh eyes

How to see our colleagues with fresh eyes As we work together with people over a long (or even medium) period of time, it is easy to become very fixed in how we see them. It is part of human nature...
Marcus de Courtenay
Conscious leadership, Development, Feedback, Insights, Leadership, Leadership skills, Perspective, Storytelling, Teams and teamwork

Conscious Leadership for the Future Fit

Though the idea of conscious leadership and conscious organisations has been around since about 2014, it is emerging as the leadership beacon of our time. As we search for what will help us to become future fit (= not harming...
Dr. Marianne de Pierres
Conscious leadership, Consciousness, Culture, Future of work, Insights, Leadership, Leadership, Regeneration, Storytelling

Regenerative Workplace Cultures

“For me, a regenerative culture is a culture that is consciously building the capacity of everybody in a particular place to respond and change and accepts transformation as something that life just ‘does’.” — Daniel Wahl Life has an inherent capacity...
Marcus de Courtenay
Capacity building, Culture, Insights, Leadership, Leadership, Regeneration, Storytelling, Work

What is the Next Generation of Performance Metrics?

“What would it take for all of your employees, from the top to the bottom, to believe that they aren’t just working in the economy of money but also in the economy of meaning?” – Wahl As we continue to...
Nikki Brown & Dr. Marianne de Pierres
Culture, Innovation, Insights, Leadership, Learning and Development, Strategy, Teams

How to Optimise Our Harmonious Passion at Work

Bring your life – to life “Passion is the absolute unity of individual character and the universal.” Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel When famous philosopher Hegel (1770–1831) wrote about passion, he argued that nothing great in the world had been accomplished without...
Dr. Marianne de Pierres
Careers, Conscious leadership, Creative Thinking, Happiness, Insights, Passion, Purpose, Storytelling, Transformation, Wellbeing

Seizing Our Regenerative Agency 

Seizing Our Regenerative Agency As we live through Industry 5.0 — described as resilient, human-centered, and sustainable — and move towards the AI revolution of Industry 6.0, we are being called to deepen our commitment to a more regenerative way of living and working...
Dr. Marianne de Pierres
Agency, Insights, Leadership, Leadership, Leadership skills, Regeneration, Regenerative leadership, Storytelling